Partial records suggest that the threat was more than likely xenos in nature. The reliability of records in regards to this particularly ignominious Founding are sketchy and unreliable at best, as they do not indicate the number of Chapters that were created, nor of their eventual fates.Īccording to the speculations of the Blood Vultures themselves, they believe they were created for the specific purpose of watching over the world of Regark and its vitally important system from some unspecified threat. It is believed by many Imperial savants that the Blood Vultures were created during the mysterious 13 th Founding, known in Imperial annals as the 'Dark Founding'. Though much of the Blood Vultures' records over the last few millennia has been ascertained from myriad battle archives within official Imperial annals, their mysterious origins have been a matter of much conjecture and recrimination. They have often been the subject of much suspicion, acrimony and even outright hostility from other Astartes Chapters. The Blood Vultures are a Space Marine Chapter of ill-repute, having long bore a brutal reputation as a bellicose and savage Chapter. Though the Chapter initially took steps to conceal this troubling aspect of their gene-seed by imprisoning an affected Blood Brother or even granting those too far gone with the Emperor's Peace, events that occurred in the early years of the 37 th Millennium nearly saw the destruction of the Chapter and revealed to outsiders their secret shame. Some of their battle-brothers have shown a susceptibility to being seduced by the insidious influence of Chaos. But this was not the most worrisome of traits, as the Blood Vultures harbour a secret not privy to any outsiders - that their gene-seed is somehow darkly tainted. The reason for this is unknown, though it is suspected by some that the Chapter somehow bought this boon through dark and secretive means. This has often caused them to be untrustworthy by various Imperial organisation as well as other Chapters of the Adeptus Astartes.Ĭreated as they were from the Blood Angels' gene-seed, they too, inherited the genetic flaws of the Red Thirst and the Black Rage, but suffer from the Flaws of Sanguinius at a much reduced rate compared to their Progenitors or their fellow Successor Chapters.
Although the Blood Vultures are unswervingly loyal to both the Emperor and the Imperium, their brutal deeds and sheer savagery and merciless ways when conducting their campaigns, have writ a bloody-handed and fell reputation across the annals of Imperial history. It is even believed by some that this powerful and robust Chapter is as mighty as their Progenitors.
A descendant of the venerable Blood Angels Chapter, the Blood Vultures have garnered a dark reputation for being savage and unrelenting fighters. The Blood Vultures are a Loyalist Space Marine Chapter of the bloodline of Sanguinius, supposedly created during the mysterious 13 th Founding, the so-called 'Dark Founding', which occurred sometime between M35 and M36. " Just because we like to kill, it does not mean we are heretics." - Amael, Blood Vultures Chapter's Grand Master of Librarians